Blog - cosmetic dentist Charlotte

  • Our Convenient Dental Office

    Posted by: Charles Payet | On: June 29, 2011

    Have you ever gone to the dentist for a problem, only to learn that you were going to have to see 1 or even several specialists to get all your treatment done?  It’s a bit irritating and inconvenient, isn’t it?  Even having to make appointments at the dentist and the orthodontist to get a cleaning […]

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  • Six Month Adult Braces + 2 CEREC Porcelain Veneers = a happy patient!

    Six Month Adult Braces are almost invisible, work faster, and are more affordable than Invisalign.

    Posted by: Charles Payet | On: March 14, 2010

    Since we started doing Six Month Braces in 2004, the number of smile makeovers that we’ve done with porcelain veneers has dropped dramatically. This is because we can create beautiful smiles much more conservatively with Six Month Adult Braces than we can with veneers, simply because there is no drilling on the teeth. There are […]

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  • Complete Smile Makeover with Porcelain Crowns

    a nightguard protects teeth

    Posted by: Charles Payet | On: March 7, 2010

    A Full-Mouth Smile Reconstruction Quite some time ago, I showed this case as an example of how badly teeth can be damaged by grinding them, whether at night, in the daytime, or both, and why something as simple and inexpensive as a nightguard (my recommendation is a NTI-tss).  It is especially inexpensive in comparison to […]

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  • 2.9 Month Braces by Charlotte dentist Dr. Payet

    Posted by: Charles Payet | On: November 24, 2009

    As much as people are often amazed at the idea that we can give them a straight smile with Six-Month Braces, there really are times when it doesn’t even take THAT long.  Take a look at Karim’s before and after pictures — literally, we put her brackets on back on September 9th, and we took […]

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  • 1-Visit Porcelain Veneer

    Posted by: Charles Payet | On: November 2, 2009

    Linda came in to our office today with 1 serious issue: a broken porcelain dental veneer on her upper right lateral incisor (second from the middle).  Naturally, since she’d been through the process of getting veneers done previously, she was expecting that she would leave with a temporary (aka provisional) veneer after we’d taken a […]

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  • Correcting a Gummy Smile with a Gum Lift

    Posted by: Charles Payet | On: July 13, 2009

    Cosmetic Dentistry can take many shapes and forms, and it is so important for you to find a cosmetic dentist who knows about all the options, not just teeth whitening and veneers.  Sometimes those are the wrong thing, and that’s especially true for patients with a gummy smile.  In the patient here, it was a […]

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